Tied to conglomerate that stands to make hundreds of millions in emissions scheme

By Jerome R. Corsi

NEW YORK – A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis.

A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs.

The Tata Group headquartered in Mumbai anticipates receiving windfall profits of up to nearly $2 billion from closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant in Britain, with about half of the savings expected to result from cashing in on carbon credits granted the steelmaker by the European Union under the EU's emissions trading scheme, or ETS.

Corus has accumulated 7.5 million European Union surplus carbon allowances, or EUAs, given the company free by the EU, after corporate officials lobbied EU officials aggressively in Brussels.

The Corus-owned 7.5 million EUAs are estimated at up to $650 million; the company also anticipates "saving" 6 million tons of carbon dioxide by closing the plant and not producing the plant's capacity of 3 million tons of steel. The 6 million tons of carbon dioxide is worth an estimated $130 million at current rates and possibly as much as $325 million at expected market levels.

The British government also announced Wednesday it would auction off rather than cancel the millions of carbon permits resulting from the Corus Redcar steel plant closing The Corus Redcar facility is scheduled to be closed in January, and if the facility is to be closed more than 50 days, Corus would not be entitled to receive the permits, worth about $147.5 million per year at current market rates.

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bmovies

12-13-2009, 12:39 PM

More info:

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/we-woz-not-worng.html

MrsSmith

12-13-2009, 01:09 PM

I think more and more of this will eventually come out. Look at Gore, given his investment in carbon companies and his ultra-high consumption lifestyle, he is quite obviously in this only for the profit. It's becoming obvious that utility companies are seeing the same profit gains in the future. Sheesh, look at private jet and limo usage at the big GREEN meeting...if any of them believed their BS, they'd be on commerical jets and bikes.

PoliCon

12-13-2009, 01:23 PM

I think more and more of this will eventually come out. Look at Gore, given his investment in carbon companies and his ultra-high consumption lifestyle, he is quite obviously in this only for the profit. It's becoming obvious that utility companies are seeing the same profit gains in the future. Sheesh, look at private jet and limo usage at the big GREEN meeting...if any of them believed their BS, they'd be on commerical jets and bikes.

AH - but they are far too important. They are above mere plebs. They are the ELITE!!!!:rolleyes: